Recording of 'Hey Jude' began on the 29th of July, 1968. A Christmas classic that has risen to infamy and controversy in the past couple of years. "She Came in Through The Bathroom Window". ~WE GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS~All donations go toward web site expenses and are greatly appreciated!

Bearing this in mind, it can be surmised that the image of the glass onion represents John's ideal of a state where all those levels of consciousness are revealed in the same instance, giving a totality of being, a comprehensive knowledge of self. When we speak of "seeing how the other half live" we are usually referring to the upper class, living a life of privilege out of sight of the general populace; here the "other half" is the fragile beauty of the stamen, revealed when the petals of a tulip are peeled back. “Most people thought it was about the year 1969.”. Lennon offered to help write the campaign song. An onion is a multi layered thing, complex and delicate. They had a comment to describe "fake" soul musicians -- Plastic Soul. Additional tracks were added but George didn't like the result and the whole track was scrapped. Then when we actually taped it with the usual instruments it started to get a bit heavy. He said "Well you can fix it!". John has several times called this song his best work, and said Paul didn't spend as much time on it as it deserved. This song is about a soldier fighting in a war when a mortar blasts off his face, legs, and arms. Yeah, and super edited for radio. So George Martin and Geoff Emerick set about the task at hand. Mantras, mysticism and a quarrel with the Maharishi. … (Listen out for an undeleted expletive at 2'59" into the finished record!) A musical marriage disintegrates On the 30th of July, another 18 takes were recorded, although these sessions were also treated as rehearsals. So much has been said and written about the Beatles -- and their story is so mythic in its sweep -- that it's difficult to summarize their career without restating clichés that have already been digested by tens of millions of rock fans. Clapton had insisted that his guitar should sound a bit different to the normal Clapton sound. With the pop-y music and lyrics like "phone's blowin' up, ringin' my doorbell/I feel the love, feel the love" and "one, two, three, one, two, three, drink," it's easy for someone to just think of this as yet another party song. Browne, the son of the 4th Lord Oranmore and Browne and Oonagh Guinness, was a friend of many rock stars at the time, including the Rolling Stones, and it was suggested he died while under the influence of LSD. When George and Geoff came back I scuttled upstairs because I shouldn't really have been recording them." This song is sad, evoking feelings of love, pain, and longing, but no one knew exactly what the lyrics meant. Jeff had been recommended by George Harrison, as they had worked together on George's 1987 album 'Cloud Nine'. The Beatles took the song to Liverpool the next day, where they played if for Pauls’ father, who convinced them that it was a “nice little tune”. Strawberry Field was an old Salvation Army home in Liverpool, situated around the corner from where John grew up. 5. Glass Onion harks back to several other songs in The Beatles canon: Strawberry Fields Forever, There's A Place, Within You, Without You, I Am The Walrus, Lady Madonna, The Fool On The Hill and Fixing A Hole.

I told him that there were two problems. "Yesterday" ~ Paul woke up with a tune in his head.

In fact, it was she who 'had' him, as in yanked his chain. The next day saw Eric Clapton involved in the song, although this was quite by accident. The only Beatle to ever perform in the Express-Times coverage area was Ringo Starr, who played at the State Theatre in Easton in 2003.